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The year 1999 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
-related events in 1999.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1999-00 United States network television schedule.








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The year 1999 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
-related events in 1999.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1999-00 United States network television schedule.

Events

  • January 1 - On Coronation Street
    Coronation Street

    Coronation Street is an award-winning soap opera created by Tony Warren. It is one of the longest-running television programmes in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on 9 December 1960, made by Granada Television and broadcast in all regions of ITV almost throughout its existence....
    , four-decade resident Alf Roberts
    Alf Roberts

    Alfred Sidney "Alf" Roberts was a fictional character in Coronation Street. He ran a grocery shop at number 15 Coronation Street and was heavily involved in local politics, including two spells as mayor of Weatherfield....
     dies of a heart attack, just one month before the real-life death of Bryan Mosley
    Bryan Mosley

    Bryan Mosley OBE was a United Kingdom actor, known best as grocer 'Alf Roberts' in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street....
    , the actor who portrayed him.
  • January 6 - Bob Newhart
    Bob Newhart

    George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
     receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
    Hollywood Walk of Fame

    The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
    .
  • February 2 - The cable network Noggin
    Noggin (TV channel)

    Noggin or sometimes known as Nickelodeon 's Noggin is a soon to be defunct 24-hour cable television Television network in the United States, intended to help children learn....
     is launched.
  • February 14 - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
     appears as himself in a special Valentine's Day
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending greeting card, Valentine's Day flowers, or offering confectionery....
     episode of the animated series The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
    .
  • March 5 - After 32 years, what is billed as the last ever News at Ten
    News at Ten

    News at Ten is the flagship news programme on United Kingdom television network ITV, produced by ITN and founded by news editor Geoffrey Cox ....
     is broadcast on ITV
    ITV1

    ITV1 is the generic brand used by twelve franchises of the ITV television network in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands....
    , hosted as usual by Trevor McDonald
    Trevor McDonald

    Sir Trevor McDonald Order of the British Empire is a Trinidad and Tobago-born United Kingdom News Reporter and Journalist. He is a news presenter with ITN, notable for having been the first black people news reader in the UK....
    . It is replaced with the ITV Nightly News
    ITV Nightly News

    ITV Nightly News was a newscast broadcast between March 8, 1999 - February 1, 2004 as a replacement for News at Ten. It aired on ITV2, daily at 11:00pm, and was broadcast from the ITN studios in London....
     from Monday
    Monday

    Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday....
    . In the event, News at Ten returns in 2001, axed again in 2004, and resurrected in 2008.
  • May 21 - Shemar Moore
    Shemar Moore

    Shemar Franklin Moore is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor and former male fashion model with Irene Marie Models, best known for his role as Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless, which he originally played from 1994 to 2002, and as the third permanent host of the long-running Soul Train series, from 1999 to 2003....
     presents Susan Lucci
    Susan Lucci

    Susan Victoria Lucci is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning United States actor. Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television....
     wins a Daytime Emmy Award
    26th Daytime Emmy Awards

    The 26th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1999 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year .General Hospital set a record this year for the most Daytime Emmys won in a single year with a total of eight....
     for her role as Erica Kane
    Erica Kane

    Erica Kane is a long-running fictional character from the United States daytime drama All My Children. Along with Joe Martin and his wife Ruth Martin , she is one of three original characters remaining since the series' premiere episode....
     on All My Children
    All My Children

    All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
    , after eighteen failed nominations in previous years.
  • June 25 - Bostock's Cup a single comedy drama airs on ITV.
  • June 1 - The educational channel BBC Knowledge
    BBC Knowledge

    BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by Cable television, Satellite television, or Terrestrial television digital broadcasting, providing a programme of documentary, cultural and educational television....
     launches in the UK.
  • June 2 - The ban on television
    Television

    Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
     in Bhutan
    Bhutan

    The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China....
     is lifted, with the launch of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service
    Bhutan Broadcasting Service

    The Bhutan Broadcasting Service is the national radio and television service in Bhutan. A private corporation formerly run by the state, it is currently the only service to offer both radio and television to the Kingdom, and is the only television service to broadcast from inside the Bhutanese border....
    . A cable
    Cable television

    Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
     service launches in English, Dzongkha
    Dzongkha language

    Dzongkha is the national language of Bhutan. The word "dzongkha" means the language spoken in the dzong, ? dzong being the fortress-like monasteries established throughout Bhutan by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century....
    , and Nepali
    Nepali language

    Nepali is a language in the Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-European languages.It is the lingua-franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar ....
     in September that year.
  • July 18 - Actor Hank Azaria
    Hank Azaria

    Hank Albert Azaria is an United States film and television actor, Film director, comedian and voice artist. He is noted for his long-running career as one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons....
     marries actress Helen Hunt
    Helen Hunt

    Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good As It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress....
    . The couple divorced on December 18, 2000.
  • August 18 - Former child star Gary Coleman
    Gary Coleman

    Gary Wayne Coleman is an United States actor, best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes . He currently works as the Secretary Controller for Simmons Media Group in Salt Lake City, Utah....
     files for bankruptcy.
  • September 6 - The ITV London Weekday franchise Carlton
    Carlton Television

    Carlton Television is the United Kingdom ITV Broadcast license for Greater London and parts of Home counties from 9:25am every Monday to 5.15pm every Friday....
     drops the on-air branding of the Central
    Central Independent Television

    Central Independent Television, more commonly known as just Central and now ITV Central, is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for English Midlands, created following the restructuring of Associated TeleVision and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982....
     and Westcountry
    Westcountry Television

    Westcountry Television, is the ITV franchise holder in the South West of England, replacing its predecessor, Television South West, from the 1 January 1993....
     ITV regions, replacing them with Carlton.
  • September 11 - The first of Channel 4
    Channel 4

    Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
    's '100 Greatest' programmes air, The 100 Greatest TV Moments.
  • September 20 - After a four year hiatus, the hit game show Family Feud
    Family Feud

    Family Feud is a U.S. television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people....
     returns with new host, Louie Anderson
    Louie Anderson

    Louie Anderson is an United States stand-up comedian. Louie has also created the cartoon series Life with Louie, has authored three books and was the initial host of the third revival of the game show Family Feud from 1999–2002....
    , along with a new set and a new theme.
  • October 4-November 8 - The six part documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs
    Walking with Dinosaurs

    Walking with Dinosaurs was a six-part television series produced by the BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and first aired in the UK in 1999....
     airs on BBC One
    BBC One

    BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
    , using computer-generated imagery
    Computer-generated imagery

    Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, Television commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media....
     and animatronics
    Animatronics

    Animatronics is the use of electronics and robotics in mechanised puppets to make them appear to be alive. They were first perfected by Walt Disney Imagineering and used at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California for the The Enchanted Tiki Room attraction....
     to show life in the Mesozoic
    Mesozoic

    The Mesozoic Era is one of three Geologic time scale of the Phanerozoic eon . The division of time into eras dates back to Giovanni Arduino, in the 18th century, although his original name for the era now called the 'Mesozoic' was 'Secondary' ....
     Era.
  • November 8 - ITV launches a generic look for the second time (the first being in 1989), with most regions adopting idents based around a heart
    Heart

    The heart is a muscle organ in all vertebrates responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in annelids, mollusks, and arthropods....
     theme. The exceptions are the three Carlton owned regions, the SMG plc owned Scottish
    Scottish Television

    Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. The studios were located in Glasgow's Theatre Royal on Hope Street for two decades, and later in custom built premises on an adjacent site on Renfield Street in Cowcaddens, Glasgow, but moving to new studios in Pacific Qua...
     and Grampian
    Grampian Television

    Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife....
    , and UTV.
  • November - Test Card J
    Test Card J

    Test Card J is a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture. It is an updated version of Test Card F, which was created by BBC engineer George Hersee, and is used to test analogue television signals....
     and Test Card W
    Test Card W

    Test Card W is a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture. It is an updated 16:9 widescreen version of Test Card F, which was created by BBC engineer George Hersee....
     debut on the BBC, replacing Test Card F
    Test Card F

    Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than four decades....
     which is retired after 32 years.
  • December 7 - Channel 5 in the UK broadcasts the TV movie Winter Angel, a revival of the popular 1970s BBC science-fiction
    Science fiction on television

    Science fiction first appeared on television during the golden age of science fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium for science fiction, which in turn contributes to its...
     series Doomwatch
    Doomwatch

    Doomwatch is a United Kingdom Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC One between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist , responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dang...
    .
  • December 17 - 10th anniversary of the first half-hour episode of The Simpsons.
  • December 21 - Average Life debutes at 8/7c on NBC.
  • December 24 - Ian Woodley
    Ian Woodley

    Ian Woodley is an England millionaire game show winner and professional poker player, based in Lee, London, South London....
     becomes the first person on British television to win a million pounds
    Pound sterling

    ----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory....
    , on a segment of the Channel 4
    Channel 4

    Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
     show TFI Friday
    TFI Friday

    TFI Friday was a light entertainment show, produced by Ginger Productions, and hosted by Chris Evans and broadcast on Fridays at 6pm on Channel 4 from 1996 to 2000, with a repeat later that night....
     called Someone's Going to be a Millionaire (a reference to ITV's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)

    In the United Kingdom, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television reality television/game show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million British pound for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty....
    , which at the time had not had a million pound winner).
  • December 25 - ITV
    ITV

    ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
     beats BBC One
    BBC One

    BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
     in the Christmas Day ratings for the first time since 1984, airing a mixture of soaps, the drama A Touch of Frost
    A Touch of Frost (TV series)

    A Touch of Frost is a detective fiction television series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV in the United Kingdom.It stars David Jason as Jack Frost , G.C., known as Jack to everyone but his late wife ....
     and three episodes of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
  • December 31 - Over 60 countries take part in 2000 Today
    2000 Today

    The Millennium Event - 2000 Today was an internationally-broadcast television special commemorating the beginning of the Year 2000. This program included New Year's Eve celebrations, musical performances, and other features from participating nations....
    , a program seeing in the start of the new millennium
    Millennium

    A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years . The term may implicitly refer to calendar millenniums; periods tied numerically to a particular calendar, specifically ones that begin at the starting point of the calendar in question or in later years which are whole number multiples of a thousand years after it....
    .


Debuts

  • January 4 - Ed, Edd n Eddy premieres on Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network (United States)

    Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting System which primarily shows Animation programming. The original American channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 with the Bugs Bunny short Rhapsody Rabbit being its first-ever aired program....
     (1999-present).
  • January 10 - The Sopranos
    The Sopranos

    The Sopranos was an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium television cable television HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning List of The Sopranos episodes....
     premieres on HBO (1999-2007).
  • January 10 - Batman Beyond
    Batman Beyond

    Batman Beyond is an United States of America animated television series created by The WB Television Network in collaboration with DC Comics as a continuation of the Batman legacy....
     premieres on The WB (1999-2001)
  • January 12 - Holby City
    Holby City

    Holby City, styled as HOLBY CI+Y, is a BAFTA award winning medical drama television serial transmitted by BBC One in the United Kingdom....
     premieres on BBC One
    BBC One

    BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
     (1999-2009)
  • January 18 - So Weird
    So Weird

    So Weird is a television series shot in Vancouver that aired on the Disney Channel as a midseason replacement from January 18, 1999 to September 28, 2001....
     premieres on Disney Channel
    Disney Channel

    Disney Channel is a cable television television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming....
     (1999-2001)
  • January 31 - Family Guy
    Family Guy

    Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
     premieres on FOX
    Fox Broadcasting Company

    The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
     (1999-2002, 2005-present).
  • February 23 - Queer as Folk (UK) premieres on Channel 4 (1999-2000).
  • February 25 - Shocking Behavior: Caught on Tape premieres on FOX (1999-present).
  • March 19 - Farscape
    Farscape

    Farscape is an Australian-United States Science fiction on television series filmed in Australia and produced for the Sci Fi Channel and the Nine Network....
     premieres on the Sci Fi Channel
    Sci Fi Channel (United States)

    Sci Fi Channel, often stylized SCI FI Channel, is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, that specializes in science fiction, fantasy, horror film, and paranormal programming....
     (1999-2003).
  • March 24 - Tenacious D
    Tenacious D

    Tenacious D is a Satire rock band formed in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of musicians and actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass .Tenacious D formed in 1994 when the members performed as an acoustic duo....
     premieres on HBO
    Home Box Office

    HBO is a premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services to over 38 million U.S. subscribers....
     (1999-2009).
  • March 28 - Futurama
    Futurama

    Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
     premieres on FOX (1999-2003, 2008-present on Comedy Central
    Comedy Central

    Comedy Central is an United States cable television and satellite television channel that carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and broadcast syndication....
    ).
  • March 30 - The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn premieres on CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
     (1999-2004).
  • April 26 - Home Movies
    Home Movies (TV series)

    Home Movies is a dialogue-driven Television in the United States list of animated television series that originally aired from 1999 to 2004....
     premieres on UPN
    UPN

    United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven years....
     (1999, 2001-2004).
  • April 29 - WWF SmackDown! premieres on UPN
    UPN

    United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven years....
     (1999-).
  • May 1 - SpongeBob SquarePants
    SpongeBob SquarePants

    SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated Television program and media franchise. It is currently one of Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Network's most-watched show....
     premieres on Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon (TV channel)

    Nickelodeon is an United States cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel. The Pinwheel name was used until 1981....
     (1999-present).
  • May 7 - Cartoon Cartoon Fridays debuts on Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network (United States)

    Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting System which primarily shows Animation programming. The original American channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 with the Bugs Bunny short Rhapsody Rabbit being its first-ever aired program....
    .
  • May 8 - The New Woody Woodpecker Show
    The New Woody Woodpecker Show

    The New Woody Woodpecker Show is an animated television series based on the Woody Woodpecker by Walter Lantz, produced by Universal Animation Studios and aired from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 on Fox Broadcasting Company and YTV ....
     debuts on Fox Kids
    Fox Kids

    Fox Kids was the Fox Broadcasting Company's United States children's programming division and brand name from September 8, 1990 until September 7, 2002....
    /FoxBox (1999-2003 premieres 1st season: 1999-2000 Wiener Wars / Electric Chilly / Woody & The Termite)
  • June 1 - Bad Girls
    Bad Girls (TV series)

    Bad Girls was an award winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road ....
     debuts on ITV1
    ITV1

    ITV1 is the generic brand used by twelve franchises of the ITV television network in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands....
     (1999-2006).
  • June 22 - Hope and Glory
    Hope and Glory (TV series)

    Hope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure....
     premieres on BBC One
    BBC One

    BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
     (1999-2000).
  • July 5 - Passions
    Passions

    Passions is an American television soap opera created by veteran writer James E. Reilly. Produced by Universal Media Studios, the series debuted July 5, 1999, on NBC , and its last airdate on that network was September 7, 2007....
     debuts on NBC in the slot vacated by Another World
    Another World (TV series)

    Another World is a television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by legendary serial creator Irna Phillips along with William J....
     ten days before (1999-2008).
  • August 9 - Independent Lens
    Independent Lens

    Airing weekly on Public Broadcasting Service through Independent Television Service, the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens introduces new drama and documentary films made by independent filmmakers....
     premieres on PBS
    Public Broadcasting Service

    The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
     (1999-present).
  • August 14 - Digimon: Digital Monsters premieres in the U.S. on Fox Kids
    Fox Kids

    Fox Kids was the Fox Broadcasting Company's United States children's programming division and brand name from September 8, 1990 until September 7, 2002....
     (1999-2003).
  • July 31 - Rocket Power
    Rocket Power

    Rocket Power is an United States animated television series that aired from August 16, 1999 until July 30, 2004 on Nickelodeon . ...
     premieres on Nickelodeon (1999-2004).
  • August 16 - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)

    In the United States, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a television reality television/game show which offers a maximum prize of United States dollar1,000,000 for correctly answering 15 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty....
     premieres in the U.S. on ABC, hosted by Regis Philbin
    Regis Philbin

    Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an United States television personality and occasional actor known for his roles as a talk show host, game show host, and presenter at various events....
    . The show is based on a British show of the same name (1999-present).
  • August 30 - The Parkers
    The Parkers

    The Parkers is an United States Situation comedy that aired on UPN from August 30, 1999, to May 10, 2004. It featured the outrageous mother-daughter team of Nikki and Kim Parker ....
     premieres on UPN
    UPN

    United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven years....
     (1999-2004).
  • September 16 - Big Brother
    Big Brother (Netherlands)

    The Dutch Big Brother is the original version of the Television reality television. It created the format in which contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of a prize at the end....
     premieres on Veronica
    Veronica (television channel)

    Veronica is a commercial television channel in the Netherlands, owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media . Other channels of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in the Netherlands are SBS6 and NET 5....
     in the Netherlands, produced by Endemol
    Endemol

    Endemol is a television production company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Netherlands, India, South Africa, Lebanon, Morocco, Philippi...
     (1999-present). Many international versions follow.
  • September 19 - Judging Amy
    Judging Amy

    Judging Amy is an United States television program drama that aired from September 19, 1999 until May 3, 2005 on CBS. The show stars Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly ....
     premieres on CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
     (1999-2005).
  • September 20 - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American drama television program about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department....
     premieres on NBC (1999-present).
  • September 21 - Once and Again
    Once and Again

    Once and Again is an United States television program that initially aired on American Broadcasting Corporation from 1999 to 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father....
     premieres on ABC (1999-2002).
  • September 22 - The West Wing
    The West Wing (TV series)

    The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. It was produced/written by Sorkin and also produced by Thomas Schlamme....
     premieres on NBC (1999-2006).
  • September 23 - Third Watch
    Third Watch

    Third Watch was an NBC television drama set in New York City that ran from September 23, 1999 to May 6, 2005....
     premieres on NBC (1999-2005).
  • September 28 - Watership Down
    Watership Down (TV series)

    Watership Down is an animation television series, adapted from the Watership Down by Richard Adams. It was a co-production of Alltime Entertainment of the United Kingdom and Decode Entertainment of Canada, and produced by Martin Rosen , the director of the 1978 Watership Down ....
     premieres on ITV (1999-2000).
  • September 29 - Judge Mathis
    Greg Mathis

    Greg Mathis is a retired Michigan 36th District Court judge and syndicated television show judge. His show Judge Mathis is produced by Telepictures Productions, and distributed by Warner Brothers....
     premieres in syndication
    Television syndication

    In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
     (1999-present).
  • October 5 - Angel
    Angel (TV series)

    Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999....
     premieres on The WB (1999-2004).
  • October 20 - One Piece
    One Piece

    is a Japanese shonen manga written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, that has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since August 4, 1997....
     premieres on Fuji TV (1999-2009).


Miniseries

  • Total Recall 2070
    Total Recall 2070

    Total Recall 2070 is a short-lived science fiction television series first broadcast in 1999 on the Canada television channel CHCH-TV and later the same year on the United States Showtime channel....
  • Stark Raving Mad
    Stark Raving Mad (TV series)

    Stark Raving Mad is the name of a short-lived NBC Situation comedy that aired from 1999 in television?2000 in television. It starred Tony Shalhoub as eccentric horror novelist Ian Stark, who is obsessed with practical jokes; Neil Patrick Harris as Stark's reluctant editor Henry McNeeley, who suffers from a variety of phobias and possibly...
  • The Last Train (UK)
  • Home Movies
    Home movies

    Home movies are films made by amateurs, often for viewing by family and friends. When the hobby began, home movies were produced on photographic film, but availability of camcorders and data storage devices has made the making of home movies easier and more affordable to the average person....


Television shows


1940s

  • Meet the Press
    Meet the Press

    Meet the Press is a weekly Television in the United States news/interview program produced by NBC. It is the List of longest running U.S. television series television show in worldwide broadcasting history, having made its television debut on November 6, 1947....
     (1947-present).
  • Candid Camera
    Candid Camera

    Candid Camera was a hidden camera television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947....
     (1948-present).


1950s

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on United States television. It has had a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and still continuing today....
     (1951–present)
  • Guiding Light
    Guiding Light

    Guiding Light is an United States television program credited by the Guinness World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television and radio history....
     (1952–present)
  • Hockey Night in Canada
    Hockey Night in Canada

    Hockey Night in Canada is a Broadcasting of National Hockey League games in Canada, produced by CBC Sports. Hockey Night consistently remains one of the highest-Bureau of Broadcast Measurement programs on Canadian television....
     (1952–present)
  • The Today Show (1952–present)
  • Panorama
    Panorama (TV series)

    Panorama is the longest-running current affairs documentary film series in the world. Launched on 11 November 1953 on BBC One, it focuses on investigative journalism....
    , UK (1953–present)
  • Face the Nation
    Face the Nation

    Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer is an United States Sunday-morning interview shows which premiered on the CBS television network on November 7, 1954....
     (1954-present).
  • The Tonight Show
    The Tonight Show

    The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night talk show and variety show airing on NBC whose The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has been hosted by Jay Leno since 1992....
     (1954–present)
  • The Wonderful World of Disney (1954–present)
  • This Is Your Life
    This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life was a Documentary film series hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards. It originally aired in the United States from 1952 to 1961, and again in 1972 on NBC....
     (UK) (1955-2003).
  • As the World Turns
    As the World Turns

    As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm Eastern Time Zone....
     (1956-present).
  • What the Papers Say
    What the Papers Say

    What The Papers Say is the second longest-running programme on United Kingdom television after the sky at night,bbc_series)]]. It is a review programme of stories published in British newspapers....
     (UK) (1956-present).
  • The Sky at Night
    The Sky at Night

    The Sky at Night is a monthly television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show has had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first airing on 24 April 1957, making it the longest-running programmes with the same presenter in television history....
     (UK) (1957-present).
  • Blue Peter
    Blue Peter

    Blue Peter is a long-running BBC television programme for children. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC Channel....
     (UK) (1958-present).
  • Grandstand
    Grandstand (BBC)

    Grandstand was a United Kingdom television sport programme, and was one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year....
     (UK) (1958-2007).


1960s

  • Coronation Street (UK) (1960-present).
  • Four Corners (Australia) (1961-present).
  • It's Academic
    It's Academic

    For the Australian version, see It's Academic .It's Academic is a Television academic Quizbowl for high school students, currently airing on three NBC affiliates in Washington, D.C....
     (1961-present).
  • The Late Late Show
    The Late Late Show

    The Late Late Show is the world's longest-running Talk show and officially the flagship television programme of Republic of Ireland broadcasting company Radio Telef?s ?ireann....
     (Ireland
    Republic of Ireland

    Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
    ) (1962-present).
  • General Hospital
    General Hospital

    General Hospital is an United States soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network during the day and on SOAPnet each weeknight....
     (1963-present).
  • Top of the Pops
    Top of the Pops

    Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a long-running United Kingdom UK Singles Chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006....
     (UK) (1964-2006).
  • Days of our Lives
    Days of our Lives

    Days of our Lives is an United States soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world....
     (1965-present).
  • Play School
    Play School

    Play School is an educational television programme for Preschool aged children that is produced in many countries.*Play School - the original BBC production...
     (Australia) (1966-present).
  • The Money Programme
    The Money Programme

    The Money Programme is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2.It was first broadcast on 5 April 1966 and presented by "commentators" William Davis , Erskine Childers and Joe Roeber....
     (UK) (1966-present).
  • 60 Minutes
    60 Minutes

    or 60 Minutes 60 Minutes is an United States investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968....
     (1968-present).
  • One Life to Live
    One Life to Live

    One Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network since July 15, 1968....
     (1968-present).
  • Sesame Street
    Sesame Street

    Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
     (1969-present).


1970s

  • All My Children
    All My Children

    All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
     (1970-present).
  • Monday Night Football
    Monday Night Football

    Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. Originally airing on the American Broadcasting Company network from 1970 NFL season to 2005 NFL season, Monday Night Football was the second longest running prime time show on United States of America broadcast network television and one of the hig...
     (1970-present).
  • Masterpiece Theatre
    Masterpiece Theatre

    Masterpiece is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH-TV. It premiered on Public Broadcasting Service on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly primetime drama series....
     (1971-present).
  • Soul Train
    Soul Train

    Soul Train was a syndicated, music-related television program. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by rhythm and blues, soul music, and Hip hop music artists, although jazz musicians and gospel music singers have also appeared....
     (1971-present).
  • Emmerdale
    Emmerdale

    Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, is a United Kingdom soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972. It is set in the fictional village of Emmerdale in West Yorkshire, England, and was created by Kevin Laffan, with Keith Richardson serving as Executive Producer since 1986 and Anita Turner as Series Producer from Janu...
     (UK) (1972-present).
  • Newsround
    Newsround

    Newsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children....
     (UK) (1972-present).
  • The Price Is Right
    The Price Is Right

    The Price Is Right is an United States television game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia subsidiary of the RTL Group. It was originally created by Bob Stewart for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions in the United States in 1956, and was significantly revamped by them in 1972....
     (1972-present).
  • Last of the Summer Wine
    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine is a United Kingdom situation comedy written by Roy Clarke that is broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973....
     (UK) (1973-present).
  • The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless

    The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26, 1973. It was created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, who set their show in a Genoa City of Genoa City, Wisconsin, a town near their annual vacation home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin....
     (1973-present).
  • Wish You Were Here...?
    Wish You Were Here...?

    Wish You Were Here...? was a United Kingdom television show that was first broadcast in 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30 minute shows about travel and holidays....
     (UK) (1974-present).
  • Arena (UK) (1975-present).
  • Good Morning America
    Good Morning America

    Good Morning America is an Daytime Emmy Awards breakfast television talk show that is broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network, debuting on November 3, 1975....
     (1975-present).
  • Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
     (1975-present).
  • the fifth estate
    The fifth estate

    the fifth estate is a Canada television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
     (Canada) (1975-present).
  • Wheel of Fortune (1975-present).
  • 20/20
    20/20

    20/20 is an United States television newsmagazine broadcast on American Broadcasting Company since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes but focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects....
     (1978-present).
  • Grange Hill (UK) (1978-present).
  • Antiques Roadshow
    Antiques Roadshow

    Antiques Roadshow is a United Kingdom human interest television show in which antiques appraisals travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents....
     (UK) (1979-present).
  • Nightline (1979-present).
  • This Old House
    This Old House

    This Old House is an United States home improvement magazine and television series which is aired on the United States public broadcast network Public Broadcasting Service that follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks....
     (1979-present).


1980s

  • Moneyline
    Lou Dobbs Tonight

    Lou Dobbs Tonight is an editorial commentary and discussion program on CNN, anchored by Lou Dobbs, who is also its Editor In Chief. The hour-long show is aired live on evenings every weekday, and repeated later at night on Headline News and in the very early morning hours on the mother network....
     (1980–present)
  • Entertainment Tonight
    Entertainment Tonight

    Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is Television syndication by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world....
     (1981-present).
  • What Now
    What Now

    What Now is a long running New Zealand children's television program.It premiered in 1981 in television. It is filmed before two live audiences, one in a studio in Christchurch, New Zealand and another from a different location each week....
     (1982-present)
  • Timewatch
    Timewatch

    Timewatch is a long-running United Kingdom television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. Produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on USA cable channels without the branding....
     (UK) (1982-present)
  • The Bill
    The Bill

    The Bill is a long-running United Kingdom television police procedural, named after a List of slang terms for police officers. It was first broadcast on 16 August, 1983 as a pilot episode, and as a regular series from 16 October, 1984 and transmitted on ITV, at 20:00 on Thursdays and most Wednesdays....
    , UK (1984–present)
  • Jeopardy!
    Jeopardy!

    Jeopardy! is a game show featuring trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture and science. The show has a decades-long Jeopardy! broadcast history in the United States since its creation by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s....
     (1964-1975, 1984-present).
  • SportsDesk
    SportsCentre

    SportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canada television network The Sports Network. TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily and was known as SportsDesk until 2001 in television....
    , Canada (1984–present)
  • EastEnders
    EastEnders

    EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
    , UK (1985–present)
  • Neighbours
    Neighbours

    Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
    , Australia (1985–present)
  • Sally
    Sally Jessy Raphaël

    Sally Jessy Raphael is an United States talk show Host , known for the eponymous Sally talk show she hosted for two decades....
     (1985-2002).
  • Comic Relief (UK) (1986-present).
  • Casualty (UK) (1986-present).
  • The Oprah Winfrey Show
    The Oprah Winfrey Show

    The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States Television syndication talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
     (1986-present).
  • ChuckleVision
    ChuckleVision

    ChuckleVision is a popular United Kingdom children's television series, shown on CBBC, first shown in 1987. It follows the adventures of the two Chuckle Brothers, who find themselves in all sorts of situations that they must cope with....
     (UK) (1987-present).
  • Inspector Morse
    Inspector Morse

    Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character in a series of thirteen detective novels by United Kingdom author Colin Dexter, as well as the Inspector Morse produced by Central Independent Television from 1987?2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw....
     (UK) (1987-2000).
  • The Bold and the Beautiful
    The Bold and the Beautiful

    The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers around the Forrester family and their Haute couture business Forrester Creations....
     (1987-present).
  • America's Most Wanted
    America's Most Wanted

    America's Most Wanted is an United States television program produced by 20th Century Fox, and is the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Broadcasting Company....
     (1988-present).
  • The American Experience (1988-present).
  • Fair City
    Fair City

    Fair City is an award-winning television soap opera , first broadcast in Ireland on September 18, 1989. Storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the residents of Carrigstown, a fictional suburb on the north side of Dublin....
     (1988-present).
  • Les Guignols de l'info
    Les Guignols de l'info

    Les Guignols de l'info is a satire latex puppet show broadcast on Canal Plus, a France subscription-based television channel. Hosted by a puppet facsimile of TF1 news anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Les Guignols is similar to the 1984?1996 British show Spitting Image....
    , France (1988–present)
  • Home and Away
    Home and Away

    Home and Away is a Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. It premiered on 17 January 1988, and is now one of the longest-running series on Australian television and won 34 Logie Awards since 1988....
    , Australia (1988–present)
  • This Morning
    This Morning (TV series)

    This Morning is a United Kingdom daytime television programme created by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV1. It first aired from Granada's Albert Dock Studios in Liverpool on 3 October 1988....
    , UK (1988–present)
  • Children's Ward
    Children's Ward

    Children's Ward was a United Kingdom children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its CiTV strand on weekday afternoons....
    , UK (1988–2000)
  • Electric Circus
    Electric Circus

    Electric Circus, aka EC, was a Canada live television dance music television program aired on MuchMusic and Citytv. It aired from September 16 1988 until December 12 2003....
    , Canada (1988–2003)
  • Baywatch
    Baywatch

    Baywatch is an United States television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County, California....
     (1989–2001)
  • COPS
    COPS (TV series)

    COPS is an United States documentary television series that follows police officers, constables, and sheriff's deputies during patrols and other police activities....
     (1989–present)
  • The Simpsons (1989–present)


1990s

  • Law & Order
    Law & Order

    Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
     (1990-present).
  • America's Funniest Home Videos
    America's Funniest Home Videos

    America's Funniest Home Videos , is an United States Reality show television program on American Broadcasting Company in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes....
     (1990-present).
  • Beverly Hills 90210 (1990-2000).
  • One Foot in the Grave
    One Foot in the Grave

    One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television situation comedy series written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series, with several specials over a ten year period, from 1990 to 2000....
     (UK) (1990-2000).
  • Rugrats
    Rugrats

    Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, G?bor Csup?, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon . The series aired from August 11, 1991 to June 8, 2004....
     (1991-2004).
  • The Jerry Springer Show
    The Jerry Springer Show

    The Jerry Springer Show is a syndicated television tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician, broadcast in the United States and other countries....
     (1991-present).
  • The Red Green Show
    The Red Green Show

    The Red Green Show was a Canadian television comedy that aired on CBC Television in Canada and on Public Broadcasting Service in the United States from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC....
     (1991-2006).
  • Barney & Friends
    Barney & Friends

    Barney & Friends is a 1992 Children's television series show produced in the United States aimed at preschool children. The series features the title character Barney, a purple Anthropomorphism Tyrannosaurus who conveys learning through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, optimistic attitude....
     (1992-present).
  • Redwall
    Redwall

    Redwall is a series of fantasy novels by Brian Jacques. It is the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, the name of the Abbey featured in the book, and the name of an Redwall based on three of the characters , which first aired in 1999....
     (1999-present).
  • Dateline NBC (1992-present).
  • The Real World
    The Real World

    The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show is the longest-running program in MTV history....
     (1992-present).
  • Frasier
    Frasier

    Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
     (1993-2004).
  • Ricki Lake
    Ricki Lake (talk show)

    Ricki Lake was a daytime tabloid talk show hosted by United States actor Ricki Lake. The show specialized in sensationalist topics involving invited guests and incorporated questions and comments from a studio audience....
     (1993-2004).
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien was an United States late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009....
     (1993-present).
  • The Late Show with David Letterman (1993-present).
  • NYPD Blue
    NYPD Blue

    NYPD Blue is an United States TV show police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan.....
     (1993-2005).
  • The X-Files
    The X-Files

    The X-Files is a Peabody Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning American cult following science fiction television series, created by Chris Carter , which first aired in 1993 and ended in 2002....
     (1993-2002).
  • WWF RAW Is War/WWF War Zone
    WWE RAW

    WWE Raw is a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States....
     (1993-present).
  • Chicago Hope
    Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope is an United States Emmy Award-winning CBS medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 5, 2000....
     (1994-2000)
  • ER
    ER (TV series)

    ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
     (1994–2009)
  • Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
     (1994-2004).
  • Party of Five
    Party of Five

    Party of Five was an United States drama television series that aired on FOX Network for six seasons, from September 12, 1994 until May 3, 2000....
     (1994-2000).
  • Time Team
    Time Team

    Time Team is a United Kingdom Television program that has aired on Channel 4 since 1994. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the series features a team of specialists doing an archaeology Excavation in three days, with Robinson explaining the process Wiktionary:in layman's terms....
     (UK) (1994-present).
  • Touched by an Angel
    Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel is an United States drama television series that chronicles the missions of a group of angels sent by God. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson , it ran on CBS for nine seasons, from September 21, 1994 to April 27, 2003, and aired in many countries all around the world....
     (1994-2003).
  • The Drew Carey Show
    The Drew Carey Show

    The Drew Carey Show is an United States sitcom that aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1995 to 2004 and was known for its "everyman" characters and themes....
     (1995–2004)
  • JAG
    JAG

    JAG is an United States Adventure /legal drama television show that was produced by Donald P. Bellisario, in association with Paramount Pictures CBS Paramount Television and, for the first season only, Universal Media Studios....
     (1995–2005)
  • Modern Marvels
    Modern Marvels

    Modern Marvels is a Documentary film television series that premiered on January 1, 1995 on History Channel. The program features how several things used in daily life in the modern world are made possible and their historical origins....
     (1995–present)
  • Sesame Park
    Sesame Park

    Sesame Park was a Canada version of Sesame Street. In its first format, it was referred to as Canadian Sesame Street and was a re-edited version of the American series; it adopted a new format and the Sesame Park title in 1996....
    , Canada (1995–2002)
  • Sliders
    Sliders

    Sliders is an United States science fiction television program that ran for five seasons from 1995 in television to 2000 in television. The series focuses on a group of travellers who "slide" between Parallel universe by use of a wormhole referred to as an "Sliders#Vortex."...
     (1995-2000).
  • Star Trek: Voyager
    Star Trek: Voyager

    Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. The show was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor and is the fourth incarnation of Star Trek, which began with the 1960s series Star Trek: The Original Series, created by Gene Roddenberry....
     (1995-2001).
  • WCW Monday Nitro
    WCW Monday Nitro

    WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly professional wrestling program produced by World Championship Wrestling. The show aired Monday nights on Turner Network Television, going head-to-head with the World Wrestling Entertainment's WWE Raw from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001....
     (1995-2001).
  • 7th Heaven
    7th Heaven

    7th Heaven is an Emmy Awards-nominated United States drama television program, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on Monday August 26, 1996, on the WB Television Network, the first time that the WB aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from 1996-2007....
     (1996–2007)
  • Access Hollywood
    Access Hollywood

    Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently being directed by Robert Silverstein ....
     (1996-present).
  • The Daily Show
    The Daily Show

    The Daily Show is an United States news satire television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States....
     (1996–present)
  • Dexter's Laboratory
    Dexter's Laboratory

    Dexter's Laboratory is an Annie Award-winning American list of animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky about a boy genius named Dexter, who has a secret laboratory hidden behind a bookshelf in his bedroom....
     (1996-2003).
  • Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
     (1996-2005).
  • Hey Arnold!
    Hey Arnold!

    Hey Arnold! was an United States animated television series that aired from October 7, 1996 until June 8, 2004 on Nickelodeon ....
     (1996-2004).
  • Judge Judy
    Judge Judy

    Judge Judy is an United States reality-based court show, featuring former family court judge, Judith Sheindlin, arbitration over small claims court cases....
     (1996-present).
  • Nash Bridges
    Nash Bridges

    Nash Bridges is an United States television police drama that was created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two detectives with the San Francisco SFPD....
     (1996-2001).
  • Spin City
    Spin City

    Spin City is an United States sitcom television series that ran from 1996 to 2002 on American Broadcasting Corporation. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence , the show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, and originally starred Michael J....
     (1996-2002).
  • Suddenly Susan
    Suddenly Susan

    Suddenly Susan is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC from 1996 to 2000. Its headlining star was Brooke Shields, who got the show after a guest appearance on Friends in the episode "The One After the Superbowl, Part One"....
     (1996-2000).
  • Rescue 77
    Rescue 77

    Rescue 77 was a short-lived American television series about the professional and personal lives of paramedic in Los Angeles, California. The show aired in the spring of 1999 on Monday nights on the The WB Television Network channel....
     (1997-1997)
  • 100% (game show)
    100% (game show)

    100% is the name of a television game show which ran in the United Kingdom from the day after the inception of its host television channel Five , 1997 until 2001....
     (UK) (1997-2001).
  • Ally McBeal
    Ally McBeal

    Ally McBeal was an United States television series which ran on the Fox Television Network network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E....
     (1997-2002).
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).
  • Daria
    Daria

    Daria was an United States animated television series that ran on the cable television MTV from 1997 to 2002. Created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn, the series about a smart, acerbic, and somewhat misanthropic high school girl was a Spin-off of MTV's animated Beavis and Butt-head ....
     (1997-2001).
  • Dharma & Greg
    Dharma & Greg

    Dharma & Greg is an United States television situation comedy co-produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, More-Medavoy Productions and 4 to 6 Foot Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television for American Broadcasting Company....
     (1997-2002)
  • Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997–2001)
  • Dream Team
    Dream Team (TV series)

    Dream Team was a United Kingdom television series produced by Hewland International which aired on Sky1 and Sky3 from 1997 to 2007, that chronicled the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United F.C.....
    , UK (1997–2007)
  • Family Affairs
    Family Affairs

    Family Affairs was a United Kingdom soap opera broadcast on Five . It was the second programme to air on the channel on March 30, 1997, the channel's launch night....
    , UK (1997–2005)
  • Johnny Bravo
    Johnny Bravo

    Johnny Bravo is an American List of animated television series created by Van Partible. It premiered on July 7, 1997 on Cartoon Network and ran for 65 episodes and 4 seasons....
     (1997-2003).
  • Just Shoot Me!
    Just Shoot Me!

    Just Shoot Me! is an United States television Situation comedy that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March 4 1997 to August 16 2003, with 148 episodes produced....
     (1997-2003).
  • King of the Hill
    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill is an Television in the United States List of animated television series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
     (1997-2006).
  • La Femme Nikita (1997-2001).
  • South Park
    South Park

    South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....
     (1997-present).
  • Stargate SG-1
    Stargate SG-1

    Stargate SG-1 is an United States-Canadian science fiction television series, part of the Stargate. Its story begins one year after the events of the 1994 science fiction film Stargate ....
     (1997–2007)
  • The Practice
    The Practice

    The Practice is an United States legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show won the Emmy Award in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and spawned the Spinoff series Boston Legal, which began airing in the fall of 2004 and deals with similar subject matter, though o...
     (1997-2004).
  • Teletubbies
    Teletubbies

    Teletubbies is a BBC British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning children's television series, primarily aimed at pre-school viewers, produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions....
     (UK) (1997-2001).
  • Average Life (1997-Present)
  • Becker
    Becker (TV series)

    Becker is an television in the United States television sitcom that ran from 1998 in television to 2004 in television on CBS. Set in the New York City borough of The Bronx, the show starred Ted Danson as the title character, Dr....
     (1998-2004).
  • Call For Help (1998-2004).
  • CatDog
    CatDog

    CatDog was an United States animated television series on Nickelodeon created by Peter Hannan....
     (1998-2006).
  • Charmed
    Charmed

    Charmed is an award-winning, Television in the United States cult television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998 until May 21, 2006, when its network, The WB Television Network, ceased operation....
     (1998-2006).
  • Dawson's Creek
    Dawson's Creek

    Dawson's Creek is an United States primetime television drama which initially aired from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003, on The WB Television Network....
     (1998-2003).
  • Forgive or Forget
    Forgive or Forget

    Forgive or Forget was a talk show which aired in national Television syndication across the United States from 1998#June to May 2000. The premise of the show involved people talking about past incidents in which the guests had wronged, or had been wronged by, a friend or a loved one, in search of making amends....
     (1998-2000).
  • Oh Baby
    Oh Baby

    This article is about the television series. For the Bill Cosby album, see OH, Baby.'Oh Baby' is an United States situation comedy series that ran on Lifetime Television from August 26, 1998 to March 4, 2000....
     (1998-2000).
  • Oh Yeah! Cartoons
    Oh Yeah! Cartoons

    Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an United States animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera....
     (1998-2001).
  • The New Woody Woodpecker Show
    The New Woody Woodpecker Show

    The New Woody Woodpecker Show is an animated television series based on the Woody Woodpecker by Walter Lantz, produced by Universal Animation Studios and aired from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 on Fox Broadcasting Company and YTV ....
     (1999-2003).
  • Sex and the City
    Sex and the City

    Sex and the City is an United States cable television series. The original run of the show was broadcast on HBO from 1998 until 2004, for a total of six seasons....
     (1998-2004).
  • SMTV Live
    SMTV Live

    SMTV Live was a United Kingdom Saturday morning children's television programme, first broadcast on ITV on 29 August 1998 and last broadcast on 27 December 2003....
     (UK) (1998-2003).
  • That '70s Show
    That '70s Show

    That '70s Show is an American television program situation comedy that centers on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979....
     (1998-2006).
  • The King of Queens
    The King of Queens

    The King of Queens is an United States sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 to 2007.The show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions CBS Paramount Television in association with Columbia Pictures Television , Columbia TriStar Television , Sony Pictures Television and filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver Cit...
     (1998-present).
  • The Powerpuff Girls
    The Powerpuff Girls

    The Powerpuff Girls is an Emmy Award award-winning United States List of animated television series about three kindergarten-aged girls who have superpower ....
     (1998-2005).
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)

    In the United Kingdom, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television reality television/game show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million British pound for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty....
     (UK) (1998-present).
  • Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
     (1998-2006).
  • Family Feud
    Family Feud

    Family Feud is a U.S. television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people....
     (1976-1985, 1988-1995, 1999-present).
  • 3rd Rock from the Sun
    3rd Rock from the Sun

    3rd Rock from the Sun is an Emmy Award-winning American situation comedy that aired from 1996 in television until 2001 in television on NBC....
     (1996-2001).


Ending this year

  • March 20 - Noel's House Party
    Noel's House Party

    Noel's House Party was a BBC television light entertainment show hosted by Noel Edmonds that was broadcast live on Saturday evenings throughout the 1990s....
     (1991-1999).
  • April 5 - Red Dwarf
    Red Dwarf

    Red Dwarf is a United Kingdom science fiction television situation comedy Media franchise, primarily comprising eight series of a television sitcom that ran on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and gained a cult following....
     (UK) (1988-1999).
  • April 13 - The Sifl and Olly Show
    Sifl and Olly

    The Sifl and Olly Show was a TV comedy that used sock puppets, animation, and music. Musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, friends since childhood, created and performed the series....
     (1998-1999).
  • April 14 - Cow and Chicken
    Cow and Chicken

    Cow and Chicken is an Emmy Award-nominated United States list of animated television series, created by David Feiss. The series shows the adventures of a cow, named Cow, and her chicken brother, named Chicken....
     (1997-1999).
  • May 4 - NewsRadio
    NewsRadio

    NewsRadio is an United States Situation comedy, originally broadcast from 1995 in television to 1999 in television on NBC.The show was created by executive producer Paul Simms and taped in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center....
     (1995-1999).
  • May 12 - The Nanny
    The Nanny (TV series)

    The Nanny is an United States situation comedy co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc. and Highschool Sweethearts Productions in association with TriStar Television for CBS....
     (1993-1999).
  • May 21 - Millennium
    Millennium (TV series)

    Millennium is an United States thriller and crime drama television program produced by Chris Carter , set during the years leading up to the year 2000....
     (1996-1999).
  • May 23 - Sister, Sister
    Sister, Sister (TV series)

    Sister, Sister is an United States television program sitcom about identical twin girls , separated and adoption at birth, who one day come face-to-face after 14 years apart....
     (1994-1999)
  • May 24 - Mad About You
    Mad About You

    Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
     (1992-1999).
  • May 24 - Melrose Place
    Melrose Place

    Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that ran between 1992 and 1999, created by Darren Star for the FOX network and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for Spelling Television....
     (1992-1999).
  • May 25 - Clueless
    Clueless (TV series)

    Clueless is a television series based on the 1995 in film Teen film of the Clueless . The series originally premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season....
     (1996-1999).
  • May 25 - Home Improvement
    Home Improvement

    Home Improvement is an situation comedy starring Tim Allen, which aired 1991 to 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams , Carmen Finestra and David MacFadzean....
     (1991-1999).
  • June 2 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television program that premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, ending in 1999. Rooted in Gene Roddenberry?s Star Trek universe, it was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, and produced by CBS Paramount Television....
     (1993-1999).
  • June 25 - the American soap opera
    Soap opera

    A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
     Another World airs its final episode (#8891) (1964-1999).
  • September 12 - Mystery Science Theater 3000
    Mystery Science Theater 3000

    Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an United States cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains that ran from 1988 in television to 1999 in television....
     (1988-1999).
  • September 24 - The Japanese cooking show Ryori no tetsujin, known in English as Iron Chef
    Iron Chef

    Iron Chef is a Japanese television program produced by Fuji Television. The original Japanese title is . The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cooking competition featuring accomplished guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredi...
    , airs its final regular episode (1993-1999), although specials would continue to air until 2002.
  • November 27 - The New Woody Woodpecker Show
    The New Woody Woodpecker Show

    The New Woody Woodpecker Show is an animated television series based on the Woody Woodpecker by Walter Lantz, produced by Universal Animation Studios and aired from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 on Fox Broadcasting Company and YTV ....
     (Pinheads / The Chilly Show / Silent Treatment)
  • December 31 - Sunset Beach
    Sunset Beach (TV series)

    Sunset Beach is an American short-running television soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last aired on December 31, 1999....
     (1997-1999).
  • Pamela Wallin Live
    Pamela Wallin Live

    Pamela Wallin Live was a Canada interview series which aired on CBC Newsworld from 1995 to 1999. It was hosted by Pamela Wallin.Following her highly publicized firing from the CBC Television's Prime Time News in 1995, Wallin formed her own production company and launched the series....
     (Canada) (1995-1999).
  • Doug
    Doug

    Doug was an United States list of animated television series sitcom that originally aired on Nickelodeon , and starred 6th grader Douglas Yancey Funnie....
     (1991-1994, 1996-1999).
  • Match Game
    Match Game

    Match Game was an United States television game show featuring contestants attempting to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions....
     (1962-1969, 1973-1984, 1990-1991, 1998-1999).


Changes of Network Affiliation

Show Moved from Moved to
Between Brothers
Between Brothers

Between Brothers is an United States television situation comedy centered around four middle-class African American men in their late twenties, living in Chicago....
 FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
 UPN
UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven years....
Franklin CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon is an United States cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel. The Pinwheel name was used until 1981....
Rupert Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon is an United States cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel. The Pinwheel name was used until 1981....
 CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....


Births


Deaths

  • January 4 - Iron Eyes Cody
    Iron Eyes Cody

    Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor born in Kaplan, Louisiana. At the time of his birth, his family lived and operated a local grocery store in Gueydan, LA where he was raised....
    , 94, actor known for a popular anti-littering commercial from the 1970s.
  • February 20 - Gene Siskel
    Gene Siskel

    Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel was an United States film critic. Alongside colleague Roger Ebert, he pioneered the classic review show, Siskel & Ebert at the Movies....
    , 53, critic for the Chicago Tribune
    Chicago Tribune

    "The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
     and co-host of the television movie show, Siskel & Ebert.
  • March 21 - Ernie Wise
    Ernie Wise

    Ernest Wiseman Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name of Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became an institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials....
    , 73, surviving half of UK comedy duo, Morecambe and Wise
    Morecambe and Wise

    Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, were a British comic double act, working in Variety show, radio, film and most successfully in television....
    .
  • March 22 - David Strickland
    David Strickland

    David Gordon Strickland Jr. was an United States actor, best known for his role as the boyish rock music reporter Todd Styles in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan....
    , 29, actor on Suddenly Susan
    Suddenly Susan

    Suddenly Susan is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC from 1996 to 2000. Its headlining star was Brooke Shields, who got the show after a guest appearance on Friends in the episode "The One After the Superbowl, Part One"....
    , (suicide
    Suicide

    Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
    ).
  • March 30 - Gary Morton
    Gary Morton

    Gary Morton was the second husband of Lucille Ball. He was a stand-up comedian, whose primary venues were the hotels and resorts of upper New York State's famous Borscht Belt....
    , 74, producer, second husband of Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball

    Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
    .
  • April 10 - Jean Vander Pyl
    Jean Vander Pyl

    Jean Vander Pyl was an actress on radio, television and movies. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones....
    , 79, voice actor who voiced Wilma Flintstone on The Flintstones
    The Flintstones

    The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
     and Rosie the Robot Maid on The Jetsons
    The Jetsons

    The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The original incarnation of the series aired on Sunday nights on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963....
    .
  • April 26 - Jill Dando
    Jill Dando

    Jill Wendy Dando was an England Journalism and television presenter who worked for the BBC for 14 years until she was murdered in April 1999. Her death sparked a huge manhunt by the Metropolitan Police and led to the trial of Barry George....
    , 37, presenter (co-host of Crimewatch
    Crimewatch

    Crimewatch is a long-running and high-profile United Kingdom television programme produced by the BBC, that Crime_reconstruction major unsolved crimes with a view to gaining information from the members of the public....
    ).
  • May 8 - Dana Plato
    Dana Plato

    Dana Michelle Plato was an United States Actor who became famous playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television Situation comedy Diff'rent Strokes....
    , 34, actress (Kimberly Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes
    Diff'rent Strokes

    Diff'rent Strokes is an United States television program that aired on the National Broadcasting Company television network from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on American Broadcasting Company from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986....
    ).
  • May 23 - Owen Hart
    Owen Hart

    Owen James Hart was a Canada professional wrestling who was widely known for his time in the World Wrestling Entertainment . Hart was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada the youngest of 12 children to wrestling promoter Stu Hart and Helen Hart....
    , 34, wrestler Superstar on WWF RAW is WAR
    WWE RAW

    WWE Raw is a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States....
  • June 11 - DeForest Kelley
    DeForest Kelley

    Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his starring role as Dr. Leonard McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek: The Original Series and six of its subsequent movies, as well as an elderly Admiral Dr....
    , 79, actor (Bones McCoy on Star Trek
    Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
    }.
  • July 12 - Bill Owen, 85, actor (Compo Simmonite) on Last of the Summer Wine
    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine is a United Kingdom situation comedy written by Roy Clarke that is broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973....
    .
  • July 20 - Sandra Gould
    Sandra Gould

    Sandra Gould was an American actress....
    , 72, actress (Gladys Kravitz #2 on Bewitched
    Bewitched

    Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1964 in television to 1972 in television....
    }.
  • September 5 - Allen Funt
    Allen Funt

    Allen Funt was an United States producer-director, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular show or a series of specials....
    , 84, host of Candid Camera.
  • December 28 - Clayton Moore
    Clayton Moore

    Clayton Moore was an United States actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger....
    , 85, actor (The Lone Ranger
    The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger is an United States, long-running, old-time radio and early television show created by George W. Trendle , and developed by writer Fran Striker....
    )
  • December 29 - Gene Rayburn
    Gene Rayburn

    Gene Rayburn was an American radio and television personality. Born Eugene Rubessa in Christopher, Illinois, he was an only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Knox College ....
    , 81, television host (Match Game).